Russia has initiated one of the most significant offensives against Ukraine

 

Russia Launched 'One Of Largest' Attacks On Ukraine 

Six people have been killed after Russia launched a massive attack across Ukraine.

seriously damaging some Power and Water Supplies, explosions rang out in several cities including Kyiv  on Monday morning as more than half of the country's regions came under attack.

Authorities in Zaporizhzia, Lutsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr  and Dnipropetrovak region   reported people are died in huge Air Raids which featured missiles and drones.

Russia's defense Ministry confirmed it had targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure one of its long-term tactics and said all its targets were hit.

 

The barrage of drone and missile attacks began across the country overnight on Monday and continued well into the morning, explosions were heard in numerous cities from Lutsk  in the west to Dnipro in the  east  as people were urged to stay in shelters and the entire country was put under air raid alert.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr  Zelenskyy said Russia had fired more than 100 missiles and about 100 drones. Mr Zelenskyy also called on Western allies including Britain America and France to change their rules and let Ukraine use their weapons to strike deeper inside Russia.

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Ukraine is allowed to use some Western weapons to hit targets inside Russia but not long range weapons, some 15 regions of Ukraine were targeted by Russia, that's according to Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal   using weapons including drones cruise missiles and supersonic missiles.

The attacks have caused serious damage to some infrastructure with power outages reported in many cities including Kyiv and Water Supplies disrupted emergency blackouts have been imposed Energy company dtec one adding that its Engineers were working to return electricity supplies across the country, Russia said it had used High Precision long range and sea based weapons  as well drones in what is called a massive attack.

Russia has been targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure since its early on fulls scale Invasion which began in February 2022.

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In recent months it has renewed its campaigns of attack on the power grid causing frequent blackouts across the country.

In June President  Zelenskyy said Russia had destroyed half of its country's electricity generating capacity since it began pummeling its energy facilities in late March.

Ukraine is buying energy from the European Union however this is not enough and so most days the country has a planned Nationwide blackout to protect critical needs such as hospitals and Military sites.